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What a difference two weeks make

By Scott Johnson

 

President Trump has only been in office for two weeks, and yet the world seems to have turned upside down. Among other things, the Trump administration has done everything in its power to advertise to the world that illegal aliens are not welcome. Woo hoo! Duly noted.

 

President Trump has promulgated an executive order repealing the program of racial discrimination that goes under the rubric of affirmative action. Christopher Caldwell is a scrupulous historian of the phenomenon. He observes:

 

For half a century, affirmative action has been the federal government’s principal instrument for carrying out desegregation, the longest and costliest moral crusade in American history. After the 1970s it was adapted to liberation movements, from feminism to gay rights. Supreme Court justices anguished over the way its call for special consideration of minorities might clash with the letter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred racial discrimination. Over the past decade affirmative action became the hammer of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement, which grew so unpopular that it has now brought affirmative action (and much else) down with it.

 

Trump’s decision to repeal it is the most significant policy change of this century—more significant than the Affordable Care Act of 2010 or anything done about Covid.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/what-a-difference-two-weeks-make.php

 

 

 

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